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Contractors’ Questions: Can I claim a smartwatch as a company expense?

Top tips for limited company directors who don’t want HMRC to clock their wrist device.

Criminal Finances Act 2017: overview for a concerned contractor sector

For contractors it could be a boon. For everyone else, it’s a case of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

5 negotiation strategies for IT contractors in need of a New Year rate rise

Less obvious but still tried and tested ways to land more per hour or per day, in 2023.

What are ‘employment costs’ when contractors use an umbrella company?

A refresher on one of the key terms on your payslip -- still being bandied about the umbrella market.

5 tax and IR35 ideas to make 2023 better for contractors

Markel Tax shares its hopes for the year ahead, following 12 months of HMRC-related uncertainty for the contractor sector.

Top 5 IT contractor skills now and in 2023

Where’s paying the most to IT contractors, and will continue offering premiums in 2023.

A contractor’s guide to VAT penalty changes effective from January 2023

Top tax compliance expert demystifies imminent changes to HMRC’s Value Added Tax regime.

5 biggest contractor CV mistakes to avoid making in 2023

Work-winning expert Matt Craven reveals what will get your contractor CV binned in 2023. 

Umbrella companies in 2023: what’s in store for contractor payroll firms

The FCSA, Professional Passport, Parasol, SAW Consulting and Clarity Umbrella do some crystal ball gazing for ContractorUK readers.

IT contractor market preview 2023: skills, rates, rivals and kissing frogs

What next year’s technology labour market has in store for freelance contractors.

Contractors' Questions: Is a Digital Nomad Visa for Spain open to limited company directors?

Britons with a business are big beneficiaries of the Spanish government’s new Start-Ups Law.

A contractor’s guide to run-off cover for Professional Indemnity Insurance

Hiscox explains what run-off cover is for PII and why contractors might need it. 

Managed Service Company (MSC) legislation: an expert's overview for contractors

Lengthy and complex it may be, but the MSC legislation is also clear and exacting. Contractors must be duly diligent.

Your last look at new rules for limited companies before they become law? Potentially

It may be your own business, but Companies House could end up naming it. And that’s even if you did your new director duty of pledging you’ll do no wrong.

Umbrella company payslips: here’s what every contractor must see

Rate, deductions, conversation, and IR35. And possibly explorable in that order -- if you want to avoid nasty surprises as an umbrella employee.